(February 14, 2016 at 12:34 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I sense a UK-US divergence, here...
Us'ians like to be left alone and prefer to take the PC road with everything.
Brits... still care, bless them... at least for their friends. "I'd say, ol'chap, you're getting a bit rounder in your belly. The wife treating better than fine, I see."
You might actually be on to something there
Maybe that's the problem. Being from the UK, we say this kind of stuff all the time, people rarely get offended. Apologies to you US-ians if it does, but this is just what i grew up like.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."